1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says
the Lord GOD concerning Edom--
We have heard a report from the LORD, And an
envoy has been sent among the nations saying,
"Arise and let us go against her for battle"-- 2
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You are greatly despised. 3
"The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who live in the clefts of the rock, In the
loftiness of your dwelling place, Who say in
your heart, `Who will bring me down to earth?'
4 "Though you build
high like the eagle, Though you set your nest
among the stars, From there I will bring you
down," declares the LORD. 5
"If thieves came to you, If robbers by night--
O how you will be ruined!-- Would they not steal
only until they had enough? If grape
gatherers came to you, Would they not leave
some gleanings? 6"O
how Esau will be ransacked,
And his hidden treasures searched out! 7
"All the men allied with you Will send you forth
to the border, And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you. They who
eat your bread Will set an ambush for you.
(There is no understanding in him.) 8
"Will I not on that day," declares the LORD,
"Destroy wise men from Edom And understanding
from the mountain of Esau? 9
"Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,
So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by
slaughter.

10"Because of
violence to your brother Jacob, You will be
covered with shame, And you will be cut
off forever. 11"On
the day that you stood aloof, On the day that
strangers carried off his wealth, And foreigners
entered his gate And cast lots for Jerusalem--
You too were as one of them. 12"Do
not gloat over your brother's day, The day of
his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons
of Judah In the day of their destruction;
Yes, do not boast In the day of their
distress. 13"Do not
enter the gate of My people In the day of their
disaster.
Yes, you, do not gloat over their calamity
In the day of their disaster. And do not loot
their wealth In the day of their disaster.
14 "Do not stand at the
fork of the road To cut down their fugitives;
And do not imprison their survivors In
the day of their distress.

The Day of the LORD and the
Future

15"For the day
of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As
you have done, it will be done to you. Your
dealings will return on your own head. 16
"Because just as you drank on My holy mountain,
All the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and swallow And become
as if they had never existed. 17"But
on Mount Zion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will
possess their possessions. 18
"Then the house of Jacob will be a fire And the
house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau
will be as stubble. And they will set
them on fire and consume them, So that there
will be no survivor of the house of Esau," For
the LORD has spoken. 19Then
those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain;
Also, possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead. 20
And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Will possess the cities of the Negev. 21
The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion To judge
the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will be
the LORD'S.

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